Mercantile Rowing Club

The Mercantile Rowing Club is based in Melbourne, Australia on the Yarra River.

[1] A group of sportsmen interested in the advancement of amateur rowing met at Young and Jackson's Hotel on 19 September 1880 and the Mercantile Rowing club was born.

Boats and facilities were borrowed from the Greenlands boatshed next to the Prices Bridge until 1884 when the member's decided to lease land and build their own boatshed at the club's current location.

[2] The current boathouse was built in 1973, after a fire destroyed the previous shed on 6 May 1973.

From Moscow 1980 the Mercantile club has had at least one representative in every Australian Olympic rowing squad without exception.